Councilmember Kristin Richardson Jordan, the incumbent in the competitive District 9 race in Harlem, will not seek re-election. She has faced criticism over her opposition to the One45 development in Harlem and her comments on the war in Ukraine.
“Had Washington and Brussels taken Russia’s security concerns seriously this war wouldn’t be happening,” she said in posts on her Twitter account last year that have since been deleted. “No country wants or deserves to have foreign powers placing missiles right on its borders.”
Richardson Jordan has been overpowered in the fundraising realm, even with the platform of incumbency, being outpaced by Dickens for several months. The now-outgoing councilmember, who was endorsed in 2021 by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s political action committee, won by a narrow margin of 114 votes over the late Bill Perkins, a Harlem political veteran, in a primary election recount that year. Eleven other candidates had sought the seat in the primary.
“As always, whether in a seat or not in a seat, I am here and look forward to continuing to fight alongside you for community care, economic justice, abolition, liberation and radical societal change," Richardson Jordan said. "Public service is one of the highest callings and I thank Council Member Kristin Richardson Jordan for her service and commitment to the Harlem community we call home,” said Salaam in a statement through his campaign."I give my deep regards to the councilmember for what must have been a difficult and somber decision," he said in a statement through his campaign.
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